Just being critical of Nintendo does not a priori rule you out as having a valid point of view.
Nintendo's big problem is the same as alot of companies. Namely stale IP. Comic books, movies, television shows have sequels ad nauseum. Nintendo has been using the same half a dozen game lines to justify 20 years and 4 home consoles worth of gaming. In the case of the gamecube, the games are often simply dressed up versions of older games with no really new core mechanics.
But as I said, this is a universal issue with major media companies merging. We are destined to see the same pop culture of the last 20 or 30 years recycled over and over for quite a while. Case in point: why are the ninja turtles having a resurrection? Why is James Bond still around? Why are they working on a Transformers movie?
That kind of parallelism, while costing the world a variety of culture, generates alot of profit in several crossover markets (toys, comic books, CD's, clothing, etc..).
I wasn't implying that portable DVD players weigh 30 lbs. WHat I am implying is:
1)Portable DVD players are significantly bulkier and weightier than their PSP counterparts.
2)Packed with other "luxury" items that only weigh a couple of pounds, this can lead to tens of pounds of extra baggage being loaded..any traveller/hiker knows this.
In terms of sheer traveling portability the PSP murders portable DVD players. But their primary fault, their one Achilles' heel that will prevent widespread adoption is UMD disks and Sony's notoriously horrendous policies of closed and niche media formats.
They had a golden goose of an opportunity to come out with the worlds first widespread digital movie store and couple it with a solid gameboy rivaling handleld...They traded it for UMD lock-in.
Although I agree with you that UMD is fundamentally a dumb idea (but the PSP is a good one), you are quie wrong when you say:
A portable DVD player and some discs (and access to innumerable rental outlets) wouldn't be a huge burden.
When you are out on the road on business, on a trail hiking, or anywhere that is not home, you want your load to be as light as possible. It is simple not convenient to anyone to be carrying around tens of lbs of "luxury" weight.
If Sony was thinking for the future, like many apologists will claim they are, then they would have had an online movie store where customers could purchase films for rental or sale in a DRM'ed MPEG 4 format, and these films could be dropped onto a memory stick or any other compatible device. Physical media, especially niche ones like UMD, is the way of the past, and Sony is notorious for being terrible with their physical media formats.
The official Apple licencing states that if you max out your authorizations, an option will appear on your account info in the Music Store "Clear All of My Authorizations". This can be done once a year.
I haven't used it yet, but that is pretty handy dandy compared to the BS MS is hawking.
Bull**** Statistics. All the graphs in that blatantly Nintendo-apologist were "Systems Sold," the point of this being to elucidate that Nintendo outsells Sony and MS on selling systems. The flaw: they include handheld gaming devices in the statistics which neither competitor was a player in during 2004. Console-gaming wise the Nintendo is losing out. Handheld gaming is great and all, and it has kept Nintendo afloat for the last few years, but with the threat of the entrance of Sony into handheld, and perhaps cel-phone type gaming platforms, Nintendo is in serious trouble.
it's almost definitely due to the heightened media attention that phishing is currently getting.
That and Phishers are becoming more and more professional. In the mid-nineties it was easy to pick out the script kiddies and the grammatically incompetent. Nowadays, however, phishing is a means of support for criminal and terrorist organizations. I have been surprised by the quality of the recent phish scams I've received. Our security needs are rapidly changing as criminals become more clever and technically adept.
I believe Arnold Rimmer on Red Dwarf went through this same metaphysical dilemma.
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True, but I think the heart of the issue is what the big broadcasting and telco companies fear most: mass internet convergence.
Imagine when your internet comes through municipal sources (or power lines for arguments sake).
Your television programming, following the lead of films, are on demand and delivered via the internet. Your phone is VOIP, delivered over the internet. Cable and telephone companies are up the river on content delivery and service providing. The reason they are fighting municipal wi-fi is because their long term existence has been threatened by the power of the internets.;-)
I don't know man. I listened to Christian music exclusively for a few months. It was a little bit too much for me. Or perhaps to be more precise too little.
The big problem with the Christian subculture is that it is very ivory-toweristic. Meaning that when I was in youth group in high school, we were discouraged from listening to non-christian music, which means "not from a Christian label". Instead of training ourselves to discerns what's right and wrong in the world and actively engage it, we wall ourselves into our own world and make it sinful to engage with anything else.
That's just bad reasoning and you'll find it all over American Christianity, and it's a big reason I don't go to Christian bookstores anymore. I get this feeling that there are some people at the top making big bucks by building this subculture of isolationism and labeling all secular media as evil.
And honestly most Christian music sounds tripe and disingenuine to me. (not all, just most).
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My wife is into the action games. Castlevania: Lament of Innocence and God of War got her totally hooked. I tried cutesy games like Katamari and Kingdom Hearts, but she was totally into action platformers.
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Try paint.net. It's a pretty badass little program that has gone through a few iterations. I was involved in its inception last year.
Nintendo's big problem is the same as alot of companies. Namely stale IP. Comic books, movies, television shows have sequels ad nauseum. Nintendo has been using the same half a dozen game lines to justify 20 years and 4 home consoles worth of gaming. In the case of the gamecube, the games are often simply dressed up versions of older games with no really new core mechanics.
But as I said, this is a universal issue with major media companies merging. We are destined to see the same pop culture of the last 20 or 30 years recycled over and over for quite a while. Case in point: why are the ninja turtles having a resurrection? Why is James Bond still around? Why are they working on a Transformers movie?
That kind of parallelism, while costing the world a variety of culture, generates alot of profit in several crossover markets (toys, comic books, CD's, clothing, etc..).
1)Portable DVD players are significantly bulkier and weightier than their PSP counterparts.
2)Packed with other "luxury" items that only weigh a couple of pounds, this can lead to tens of pounds of extra baggage being loaded..any traveller/hiker knows this.
In terms of sheer traveling portability the PSP murders portable DVD players. But their primary fault, their one Achilles' heel that will prevent widespread adoption is UMD disks and Sony's notoriously horrendous policies of closed and niche media formats.
They had a golden goose of an opportunity to come out with the worlds first widespread digital movie store and couple it with a solid gameboy rivaling handleld...They traded it for UMD lock-in.
A portable DVD player and some discs (and access to innumerable rental outlets) wouldn't be a huge burden.
When you are out on the road on business, on a trail hiking, or anywhere that is not home, you want your load to be as light as possible. It is simple not convenient to anyone to be carrying around tens of lbs of "luxury" weight.
If Sony was thinking for the future, like many apologists will claim they are, then they would have had an online movie store where customers could purchase films for rental or sale in a DRM'ed MPEG 4 format, and these films could be dropped onto a memory stick or any other compatible device. Physical media, especially niche ones like UMD, is the way of the past, and Sony is notorious for being terrible with their physical media formats.
IANAL, but AFAIK, you cannot patent "Look and Feel" of a program, yet that is the heart of this "Patent Infringement".
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You must have a limited understanding of "infinite".
I haven't used it yet, but that is pretty handy dandy compared to the BS MS is hawking.
...M.C. Hawking!
As is Fat Tire..and pretty much anything out of the New Belgium brewery.
Bull**** Statistics. All the graphs in that blatantly Nintendo-apologist were "Systems Sold," the point of this being to elucidate that Nintendo outsells Sony and MS on selling systems. The flaw: they include handheld gaming devices in the statistics which neither competitor was a player in during 2004. Console-gaming wise the Nintendo is losing out. Handheld gaming is great and all, and it has kept Nintendo afloat for the last few years, but with the threat of the entrance of Sony into handheld, and perhaps cel-phone type gaming platforms, Nintendo is in serious trouble.
I'd prefer lower price to parallelism.
How about "The Last Starfighter", except as a sequel to the movie where you are rebuilding the Starfighter core.
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That and Phishers are becoming more and more professional. In the mid-nineties it was easy to pick out the script kiddies and the grammatically incompetent. Nowadays, however, phishing is a means of support for criminal and terrorist organizations. I have been surprised by the quality of the recent phish scams I've received. Our security needs are rapidly changing as criminals become more clever and technically adept.
Only on Slashdot would this comment be insightful...*sigh*
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Imagine when your internet comes through municipal sources (or power lines for arguments sake).
Your television programming, following the lead of films, are on demand and delivered via the internet. Your phone is VOIP, delivered over the internet. Cable and telephone companies are up the river on content delivery and service providing. The reason they are fighting municipal wi-fi is because their long term existence has been threatened by the power of the internets. ;-)
Microsoft changed the algorithm due to security issues involved with that. They caught a hacker once by translating his guid to his IP address.
{6E085F0D-9ACD-4317-A2EF-657F87B09A1C} Computers Inc.
Mozilla Fire-{E252FE02-495C-499f-B63D-07D8FF2AC4D0} Web Browser!
See there, guaranteed (virtually) to be unique from all other trademarks!!
The big problem with the Christian subculture is that it is very ivory-toweristic. Meaning that when I was in youth group in high school, we were discouraged from listening to non-christian music, which means "not from a Christian label". Instead of training ourselves to discerns what's right and wrong in the world and actively engage it, we wall ourselves into our own world and make it sinful to engage with anything else.
That's just bad reasoning and you'll find it all over American Christianity, and it's a big reason I don't go to Christian bookstores anymore. I get this feeling that there are some people at the top making big bucks by building this subculture of isolationism and labeling all secular media as evil.
And honestly most Christian music sounds tripe and disingenuine to me. (not all, just most).
...So I've been listening to alot of U2 lately.
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My wife is into the action games. Castlevania: Lament of Innocence and God of War got her totally hooked. I tried cutesy games like Katamari and Kingdom Hearts, but she was totally into action platformers.